| What may be even more important to note in all of this is the Vioxx cover-up further confirms the character of the drug companies in our modern day environment of drug promotion and suppression of negative side effects. I've often talked about the distortion of medical studies and how so-called evidence-based medicine is really little more than scientific fraud.
Merck’s effort to discredit this negative study is yet another example of that. |
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 Furthermore, it should be illegal for any person who works at the FDA to own stock of drug companies or to be on the payroll of drug companies, because if these people are being funded by drug companies then obviously it is in their financial interest to make sure that drug companies succeed financially. It is an obvious and potentially deadly conflict of interest that must be immediately rooted out and eliminated. |
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 They have expensive habits, expensive travel, and expensive dinner bills (fortunately, drug companies pick up most of the travel and dinner). Let's face it: Doctors have just gotten used to the idea that they're supposed to be treated to a higher level of comfort and prestige than the rest of the population, and if it takes drug money to buy that lifestyle, then bring on the drug reps!
Actually, I'm being facetious. Most doctors hate those pesky drug reps. And the smart ones can't stand Big Pharma, either. |
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 Non-profit cancer groups are of special interest, as many of them take money from drug companies, then actually block prevention efforts while promoting chemotherapy. If you have inside information on any of these organizations, click here to contact us or call us at (520) 232-9300.
We're looking for public school officials who want to blow the whistle on soft drink companies and junk food companies who pressure schools into accepting vending machines that feed garbage foods to kids. What tactics did these companies use? What were the results on attendance, grades, and student behavior? |
| Conventional medicine is about to have an Enron moment, and whistleblowers have a rare opportunity right now to help expose the fraud of drug companies, the FDA and the entire disease mongering system known as conventional medicine.
Whistleblowers are unique individuals. No one is born a hero; they become a hero by making a decision to take a stand against a grave injustice, even when doing so is unpopular. |
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 Like parasites that don't know when to stop, drug companies seemed determined to drain the economic life away from the country in any way possible.
What we're seeing today is unrestrained capitalism at its worst. The so-called "free market" system of organized medicine is really only free and open to those organizations that control the media propaganda, FDA decision makers, medical journal content and med school agendas. And, of course, those are the organizations with the big bucks. |
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 We know the drug companies are out to exploit every American citizen just to make a profit, no matter how many people are killed. We know that doctors are just glorified drug dealers, and we know that medical schools are nothing but pre-training for glorified drug dealing. It's all a sad joke!
Why would you want to be an old-school anyway?
People like Dr. Andrew Weil are trying to make changes out there. He's more effective in the medical community than a guy like me, as I just tend to anger all the doctors. |
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| Furthermore, we are not looking to unfairly smear drug companies with false information of any kind; we're only looking to present accurate, factual accounts of the true behavior of these corporations whose own behavior is incriminating all by itself.
Let's face it. Somebody has to counter the massive influence and corruption found in conventional medicine today. |
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| And if you think that's stupid, just imagine: your state has been sending drug companies $900 checks for one bottle of what is essentially salt water. Those are your state tax dollars at work. Aren't you impressed by the financial efficiencies of state government? No wonder the states are suing over it. |
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| Studies prove that drug company gifts to doctors are, indeed, not only effective, but quite a bargain for the drug companies. It's sort of like street corner drug dealers handing out crack in order to gain new customers, except that nobody denies crack is actually bad for your health.
Speaking of crack, Pfizer's CEO Hank McKinnell says all this talk about banning the bribing of doctors is unnecessary because Pfizer already has its own "voluntary code of conduct." Well that's a relief. All the bribery in the industry is going to be stopped by the drug dealers themselves! |
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 What could have prompted these 49 Senators to vote to protect the profits of drug companies? Follow the money and you'll find your answer. As it turns out, nearly every one of the 49 Senators who voted against drug reimportation has accepted money from drug companies. USA Today reported the top offenders who voted against the bill, along with the dollars they've accepted from drug companies since 2001:
U.S. Senators' Drug Money
Richard Burr, R-N.C.
$520,694
John Kerry, D-Mass.
$304,888
Joe Lieberman, I-Conn.
$281,040
Arlen Specter, R-Pa. |
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| Conflicts of interest between doctors and drug companies are almost never made public. And the transgressions continue...
Exasperatingly, the industry has been so deeply corrupted by drug company money that the seemingly simple act of banning bribes is going to take a political miracle to accomplish.
Just don't expect Congress to jump in and pass national laws outlawing the bribing of doctors. They're also on the take when it comes to drug money. |
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| The difference -- the "price spread" -- is pure profit for drug companies who are profiting handsomely at the expense of taxpayers.
The scam is being described by the Alabama Attorney General as a "systematic" effort by pharmaceutical companies to defraud states of billions of dollars. It's yet another example of the widespread lack of ethics in the pharmaceutical industry, where seemingly any strategy that makes money is supported: scientific fraud, Medicaid fraud, censorship, bribery, intimidation... and that's just what we've seen in the national headlines in the last month! |
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| We know when to say no to the drug companies, the doctors, or the pharmaceutical companies. We know how to be skeptical consumers.
So I encourage you to keep investigating, and keep investing in yourself. Keep learning more about health, nutrition, and wellness. And don't follow your doctor's advice if he or she says all of this is useless and discourage you from learning on your own. Fire that doctor and find yourself a new one. Work with a doctor who encourages you to educate yourself. |
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| There's no doubt that the drug companies are after one thing only: profit. And they seem to be willing to trade anything for it: ethics, safety, honesty, humanity, compassion... you name it. As long as there's money to be made, they're the first in line, regardless of the tactics. This behavior even makes Enron look good. After all, Enron was a fiasco, but at least in the end it was only money, not lives at stake. But with Big Pharma, it's both. |
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| Prohibit drug companies from providing direct financing for educational programming.
Prohibit medical faculty from belonging to pharmaceutical companies' speakers' bureaus or publishing drug company articles as their own.
Require faculty members that receive financial support from pharmaceutical companies to post them on public Internet sites.
Reading this list is fascinating all by itself, because it makes you realize that all these things are going on right now. |
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| Each will be recorded in history as resulting from the actions of those self-appointed people willing to speak out and take action against oppression and tyranny.
The drug companies and power brokers of modern medicine don't realize it yet, but they have already sowed the seeds of their own destruction. Their endless quest for corporate profits at any cost has driven them to medical madness through disease mongering, the drugging of children, and conspiracy with the FDA (and other industry organizations). |
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| It was illegal, but the FDA legalized it in 1997 to generate profits for the drug companies that the FDA seems sworn to protect. Since then, the drug industry and prescriptions have boomed. Now we have more than 40 percent of the population on prescriptions, nearly all of which are medically unnecessary.
Prescription drugs by themselves are a giant sham, because none of them treat the underlying causes of ill health. They only mask the symptoms of disease, or try to interfere with the body's basic biochemistry. |
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 Canadians, Europeans, and even citizens of Mexico pay only about one-half to as little as one-tenth the price paid by Americans for the very same chemicals. drug companies actually import many of the raw materials used in pharmaceuticals from other countries, meaning that some U.S. medicines are already sourced from countries like the U.K. and Germany.
Drug companies mark up their prescription drugs as much as 569,000% over the price of the raw materials. (A typical markup is more in the 30,000% - 50,000% range.) Retailing pharmaceuticals is hugely profitable. |
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 Surely this is further evidence of the lack of innovation in the big drug companies.
There is a related problem. The pharmaceutical industry has compromised the scientific process that supposedly underlies their existence. And we, the people, or at least our government, have let them do it! The very clinical trials which are crucial in establishing a new drug's efficacy are designed, carried out, and interpreted not by independent investigators, but by the very drug companies that have an enormous vested interest in the outcomes. |
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 This would have been the ultimate insult to American consumers, but a huge victory for drug companies (whose products arguably are the most dangerous products currently being consumed by Americans, with the exception of tobacco products).
2) drug companies will eventually be required to publicly disclose the results of drug trials by publishing them on the internet. |
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 Treating cancer with anything other than deadly, FDA-approved chemotherapy, radiation or surgery has been outlawed, and most of the good cancer doctors have either fled the United States or operate in secret, afraid to advertise their therapies for fear of being raided at gunpoint by health authorities.
3) drug companies now own and operate the Food and Drug Administration, U.S. lawmakers and the mainstream media. No decision is made by the FDA unless it ultimately helps drug companies either make more money or avoid public scrutiny. New laws passed by U.S. |
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 So we have a conspiratorial trio now working in concert to keep you stupid and diseased: The mainstream media (which takes billions of dollars each year from drug companies), the drug companies (which earn billions of dollars each year selling advertised drugs), and the FDA (which enforces the monopoly and eliminates competition by censoring truthful information about dietary supplements). It is this trio which explains why Americans now pay the highest prices in the world for health care and yet are simultaneously the most diseased people of any industrialized nation in the world. |
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 A chemical amphetamine, Ritalin is made of controlled substances that would land you in prison if you sold them to a kid on the street, yet the drug is currently prescribed to millions of schoolchildren in the United States to treat a "brain chemistry condition" that was invented by the drug companies.
6. In the 1930's, drug companies marketed amphetamines as over-the-counter inhaler medicines for treating nasal congestion. Tablet amphetamines were also widely available in tablet form and frequently abused by students, truck drivers and other groups.
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 These companies go out of their way to hire scientists willing to design and run these studies to produces precisely the result that the drug companies want. This is easy to accomplish; any researcher refusing to play along with this fraudulent science game is not offered additional work. In the worst cases, they are terminated and blackballed from the industry.
This manipulation of drug trials is routine today. drug companies are able to support almost any conclusion, no matter how ridiculous or preposterous, by pumping enough money into the studies. |
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| So we have a conspiratorial trio now working in concert to keep you stupid and diseased: The mainstream media (which takes billions of dollars each year from drug companies), the drug companies (which earn billions of dollars each year selling advertised drugs), and the FDA (which enforces the monopoly and eliminates competition by censoring truthful information about dietary supplements). It is this trio which explains why Americans now pay the highest prices in the world for health care and yet are simultaneously the most diseased people of any industrialized nation in the world. |
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| The FDA, drug companies and mainstream media routinely invent scare stories about vitamins and nutritional supplements, then publicize them in order to scare consumers away from nutritional therapies (and herd them into profitable drug treatments).
7) The FDA currently "negotiates" with drug companies over drug safety warning labels, refusing to do its job of protecting the public from dangerous or deadly drugs. Case in point: an FDA advisory panel actually voted to put Vioxx back on the market after it killed more than 50,000 Americans and its own manufacturer voluntarily recalled the drug. |
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| In the 1930's, drug companies marketed amphetamines as over-the-counter inhaler medicines for treating nasal congestion. Tablet amphetamines were also widely available in tablet form and frequently abused by students, truck drivers and other groups.
7. Meth was originally synthesized by chemists and later refined by drug companies. During WWII, "meth" was actually prescribed to soldiers by the U.S., Germany and Japan. Even Hitler was known as a "meth head" by his own staff. By the end of the war, millions of military personnel were addicted to the drug. |
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| The very clinical trials which are crucial in establishing a new drug's efficacy are designed, carried out, and interpreted not by independent investigators, but by the very drug companies that have an enormous vested interest in the outcomes.
The government agency that is supposed to regulate the industry is the FDA. It has not done its job, especially in recent years. One problem is that the agency is under undue influence from the very industry it regulates. Since 1992, drug companies have paid "user fees" to the FDA. |
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| Once you realize the connection between street drugs and prescription drugs, it's easy to figure out why Big Pharma is such a strong supporter of the Partnership For A Drug-Free America -- because they don't want consumers getting their drugs from street dealers, they want people buying their drugs from drug companies! Drug companies' attempts to outlaw street drugs are little more than a way of eliminating the competition and monopolizing the drug market. |
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